Amdocs “We view standardization and openness as critical solution requirements for realization of the dynamic and automated service-driven network, and we are very pleased with the results that ONAP is…

vCPE Blueprint in ONAP

This post originally appeared on Arana Networks. Republished with permission. This blog explains deployment details (using TOSCA/HEAT templates) of some of the important services of the vCPE blueprint in ONAP. It assumes…

Debugging ONAP OOM Failures

Originally published on Aarna Networks, republished with permission. On May-21, Amar Kapadia & I conducted a webinar on the topic of “Debugging OOM Failures”. Webinar video recording Webinar slide deck We started…

How service providers can use Kubernetes to scale NFV transformation

This post originally appeared on LinkedIn. Republished with permission by Jason Hunt, Distinguished Engineer of IBM. After attending two major industry events—IBM’s Think and the Linux Foundation’s Open Networking Summit (ONS)—I’ve been…

From Portal to SDC: Inside the ONAP Architecture

See below for a quick overview of ONAP informational videos from Architecture sub-committee members Manoop Talasilla and Michael Lando. The ONAP platform is made of several software subsystems and two…

Computer World: Linux Foundation launches networking initiative

The Linux Foundation has launched a new effort to promote collaboration between open source networking projects. The foundation this week unveiled the LF Networking Fund, which Arpit Joshipura described as…

Open source is transforming networking. Ever since OpenFlow appeared in 2011 and showed that we could use software to improve networking, open-source software, and not hardware, has blazed the future of networking.…

SDxCentral: Linux Foundation Combines 6 Networking Projects Into 1

Six Linux Foundation open source networking projects are combining into one new project known as the LF Networking Fund (LFN). The six initial projects are ONAP, OPNFV, OpenDaylight, FD.io, PDNA, and SNAS. Read more at SDxCentral.

The Linux Foundation is restructuring its operations to better coordinate the activities of multiple open source networking projects that impact the telecom space, including OPNFV, ONAP and OpenDaylight. Read more…

Contributions Will Accelerate Network Innovation and Transformation NEW YORK and SAN FRANCISCO – January 16, 2018 – Verizon and The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit organization enabling mass innovation through open…

Light Reading: ONAP Shifts Focus to Platform, Functions

The next release of ONAP software will focus on making the overall platform more mature and developing functional requirements that can support multiple end-to-end use cases, says one individual involved…

RCR Wireless: Bell Becomes First Operator to Launch ONAP in Production

Canadian telecommunications company Bell announced it has become the first company to launch an open source version of the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) in production. The announcement was noted…

Bell Canada has become one of the first service providers to deploy Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), focusing its initial attention on automating its data center tenant network provisioning process.…

Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project Expands Globally, Adds Four New Members

Beijing University of Posts and Telecommunications, Hangzhou Eastcom Software Technology Corporation, KT Corporation and LG Uplus Join the Effort to Harmonize Open Source and Standards San Francisco – December 5,…

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) has announced the availability of its first platform release, called Amsterdam, which delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation. The open source…

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) community recently announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP “Amsterdam.” This release delivers a unified architecture for end-to-end, closed-loop network automation and creates a…

PacketPushers: ONAP Amsterdam: An Open Platform For Network Automation

The Open Network Automation Platform, a Linux Foundation project, has released ONAP Amsterdam, an open-source platform to enable network automation for carriers and service providers. ONAP Amsterdam includes open-source software for orchestration…

Telecoms: ONAP Sparks up Its First Release – Amsterdam

Such is the mind-boggling complexity of virtualizing and automating networks that open source collaboration is widely considered to be the most effective way of doing so in an interoperable way. ONAP claims…

SmarterMSP: ONAP Promises to Transform Deliver

ONAP, a framework that’s being spearheaded by The Linux Foundation and promises to transform how network and cloud services are delivered, was made generally available yesterday. The Amsterdam release of the…

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) announced the release of ONAP Amsterdam, a unified architecture for closed-loop, end-to-end network automation. The purpose of the platform is to decrease costs​ ​and​…

Wireless Week: ONAP Unveils First Release Amsterdam

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has unveiled its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, to help service providers with ongoing efforts to virtualize their networks. Amsterdam aims to deliver…

As service providers continue efforts to virtualize their networks, the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has unveiled its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, which aims to deliver a unified…

Mobile Europe: ONAP Hails Completion of Its First Project, Amsterdam

Dubbed Amsterdam, the platform is the first completed work since the separate open source virtualisation projects OpenECOMP and Open-O combined earlier this year. ONAP said Amsterdam merged the work of…

Mobile World Live: Amsterdam gets ONAP Ball Rolling

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project unveiled its first release, a unified architecture for closed-loop network automation designed to enable tier-one operators to rapidly deploy new services. In an…

The recently established Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project has marked the first official release of its open source code, written in collaboration with major network operators. The release codenamed…

SDxCentral: ONAP Rolls Out Amsterdam Release

Less than nine months after AT&T and the Linux Foundation merged their open source projects to become the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), the group today rolled out its first code release, Amsterdam. The highly anticipated…

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project announced the availability of its first platform release, ONAP "Amsterdam," which delivers a unified architecture for closed-loop network automation. The Amsterdam release provides a…

Light Reading: Ambitious Amsterdam Makes ONAP’s Case

ONAP today rolled out its much-anticipated first software release, dubbed Amsterdam, promising a unified architecture for network automation, modules of which can -- and are -- being used immediately by…

ONAP has taken another step forward as a key enabler for service providers virtualizing their networks with its first platform release, ONAP Amsterdam, focusing on a unified​ ​architecture​ ​for​ ​closed-loop​ ​network​…

Via collaboration of global, sustainable community, ONAP Amsterdam release addresses real-world SDN, NFV and VNFs just in time for 5G San Francisco, November 20, 2017– The Open Network Automation Platform…

Amdocs, a software and services provider to communications and media companies, rolled out a new intercarrier service orchestration solution, which enables Communication Service Providers (CSPs) to automate traffic scaling across…

FierceTelecom: Linux Foundation’s Joshipura says ONAP is now the de facto open networking platform

ORLANDO--Since ECOMP and Open O merged earlier this year to create Open Networking Automation Platform (ONAP), the Linux Foundation is seeing membership and interest continue to accelerate to automate more…

SDxCentral: AT&T, Orange, and Partners Shrink the World Using MEF LSO, ONAP

ORLANDO, Fla. — AT&T, Orange, and a handful of technology partners are attempting to shrink the world by using inter-provider application programming interfaces (APIs) to provision Ethernet services. The companies demonstrated a proof…

SDxCentral: AT&T Wields Disproportionate Influence in ONAP, But Everyone’s OK With It

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) open source group is presumably putting the finishing touches on its first code release — Amsterdam. The group has said it will release Amsterdam before the end…

DALLAS – AT&T and Tech Mahindra are developing an open source artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning platform that will be hosted within the Linux Foundation. The Acumos Project is expected to be launched early…

Vanilla Plus: ZTEsoft Joins ONAP for Collaborative Transformation of the Service Delivery Lifecycle and SDN/NFV

ZTEsoft has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) project. More than 50 global service providers and technology leaders are co-operating to expand the global community and further the ONAP vision for collaborative…

Telco Transformation: MEF & ONAP Strike Up Collaboration Effort

The telco industry has long clamored for more cooperation between open source communities and standard development organizations, so today's announcement that MEF and ONAP had agreed to collaborate on end-to-end…

MEF and the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP), a Linux Foundation project, have signed a memorandum of understanding to establish service orchestration for service providers interconnecting diverse networks and technologies.…

Relationship brings open source and standards together to further shared vision for service orchestration across multiple providers and technology domains SDN NFV World Congress 2017 – The Hague, Netherlands, 11…

SDxCentral: Amdocs Brings an NFV Software Package Based on ONAP

Amdocs is wasting no time introducing service creation capabilities for virtual network functions (VNFs) based on the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP). Today, Amdocs announced its new NFV Powered by ONAP…

Vodafone has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project as a Platinum member, giving credence to the growing software-based effort by providing its perspective as a major global service…

Vodafone Joins Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project

Global Operator To Accelerate Open Source Innovation and Automation OPEN SOURCE SUMMIT NORTH AMERICA--LOS ANGELES--SEPT. 11, 2017–The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project today announced that Vodafone Group has joined…

Light Reading: Windstream Formally Embraces Open Source

Windstream is dipping its toe into the open source waters, joining the Open Network Automation Project (ONAP), its first active engagement in open source. (See Windstream Joins ONAP.) The announcement could…

Windstream has joined the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project, signaling the telco’s desire to set the stage to implement software-defined networking and network functions virtualization across its network architecture.…

As AT&T continues to ramp up its network virtualization efforts, the service provider is seeing its vendor partners embracing the software-centric model. Having spent decades developing hardware solutions for their…

Converge! Network Digest: Coriant Backs ONAP Project

Coriant announced its support for the Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project to help accelerate industry adoption of standards-based Software Defined Networking (SDN) and Network Function Virtualization (NFV) capabilities that…

Light Reading: Reliance Jio joins ONAP

The Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project today announced that Reliance Jio Infocomm Limited (Jio) has joined as a Platinum member. The addition of Jio, a top telecommunications, digital platform…

The Linux Foundation Announces Merger of Open Source ECOMP and OPEN-O to Form New Open Network Automation Platform (ONAP) Project

Top Carriers and Vendors Back Groundbreaking Global Initiative Uniting Two Major Networking and Orchestration Projects SAN FRANCISCO, February 23, 2017 – The Linux Foundation, the nonprofit advancing professional open source…